What could be more convenient, or provide more choice, than a street with a variety of shops selling different things? It’s the fact that many people can’t be bothered to stagger more than 100 yds from their cars that gives rise to the myth of inconvenience. And the fact that they say they have no time, yet somehow manage to squeeze in an average of 25 hours a week television viewing. Not anything to do with the failings of most shops and independent retailers.
FAIR COMPETITION?
For Simon Hoare, representing the Liberty Mercian/Smithfield development it’s a matter of WHERE and not of WHETHER a development will be built. For OS21 it is a matter of SCALE as well as LOCATION, and for town centre retailers, it’s a matter of how a development will affect their TAKINGS and LIVELIHOODS.
If you don’t have an opinion now, you will certainly have one once one of the over scaled and inappropriately located developments has been built and in is in operation. Yes, you have an economic down turn, increasing oil prices, environmental issues and Parkright to contend with - but do you really want to see the chief economic retail zone of the town effectively relocated to edge or out of town as well - with FREE PARKING?
OS21
IS A GROUP DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
OF OSWESTRY IN THE
21ST CENTURY
